Several human beings contemplate the case of a boy handed over to aliens.

From across the universe, two sisters try to keep each other in contact.

Through visions of the past and future, a man ponders his place in the Black freedom struggle.

A mother, her two children, and their stepfather come over to a friend’s for a dinner on Labor Day.

The ex-wife of a famous male writer considers a story he wrote about a neighbor they once had.